Hollywood Pictures is one of
The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's
Touchstone Pictures and
Miramax Films brands, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than
Walt Disney Pictures. Its first release was
Arachnophobia (1990).
While Disney chief
Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship
Walt Disney Pictures studio. Its most profitable film to date is
The Sixth Sense, which grossed over $200 million at the North American box office.